Calm Quotes

It is the calm and silent water that drowns a man.

Calm of mind, all passion spent.

In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.

Kites rise against, not with the wind. No man has ever worked his passage anywhere in a dead calm.

All of us should treasure his Oriental wisdom and his preaching of a Zen-like detachment, as exemplified by his constant reminder to clerks, tellers, or others who grew excited by his presence in their banks: “Just lie down on the floor and keep calm.” (About John Dillinger)